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CONNECTICUT-BASED PROMOTER JUNIOR WELLINGTON, NOW FOCUSING ON COMEDIC PLAYS BECAUSE “DANCEHALL EVENTS ARE DYING IN THE U.S.A!”

July 2nd, 2016 | Add a Comment

By Cecelia Campbell-Livingston and Curtis Campbell— Junior Wellington Connecticut-based promoter Junior Wellington feels dancehall events and festivals are dying in parts of the United States. As a result, Wellington has turned his focus to promoting mainly Jamaican comedic plays because dealing with dancehall acts and their managers is just too much. “Most of these booking agents or managers are really not professional in their approach. You get the feeling that they don’t care to market the image or brand of the artist,” Wellington told THE WEEKEND STAR. “For example, they would know that a well known and organised promoter is in the area … who will make sure that the artiste is properly promoted in the media. But, of course, this established promoter is not going to pay some astronomical booking, based on experience of the … Read entire article »

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SPONSORSHIP REMAINS UNCERTAIN FOR STING 2015!

September 20th, 2015 | Add a Comment

By Mel Cooke— Directors of Sting at a previous launch—-. Sponsorship woes are not new to Sting, and the 2015 staging is following a familiar pattern of uncertainty. Three months before the event, Supreme Promotions’ Isaiah Laing, Heavy D, and DiMario McDowell tell The Sunday Gleaner that there are no sponsorship arrangements. “Nobody is on board right now,” Laing said. Previous high-profile sponsors within the last decade have included white rum brand Rumfire, Guinness, LIME, Downsound Records, and Magnum. Laing puts the lack of external cash injection into Sting in the general context of funding dancehall at its purest. “Everybody neglect dancehall. The hardcore dancehall get neglected all the time. Last year we had Magnum and the year before. They are not on board this year as far as I know,” Laing said. However, he said, … Read entire article »

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SCIENTISTS SAY THEY HAVE PROOF THAT RAP IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MUSIC SINCE 1960!

May 10th, 2015 | Add a Comment

By Jethro Mullen— Heavy D w/ Tribe Called Quest in 1990. Rapper Heavy D (center, in shades) poses with members of the U.S. hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest around 1990. Hip-hop had the biggest influence on pop music between 1960 and 2010, a new study says. Story highlights British bands didn’t spur a revolution in American music in the ’60s, researchers say They analyzed pop’s evolution through thousands of songs in the Billboard Hot 100 (CNN)–Forget The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the most important development in pop music in the past half century is hip-hop. That’s not an opinion, it’s fact — backed up by hard data, says a team of researchers from two London universities. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the researchers say they threw out “musical lore and … Read entire article »

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“IT’S A FAMILY TING” WHEN IT COMES TO MAXI PRIEST, JACOB MILLER AND HEAVY D!

May 10th, 2014 | Add a Comment

By Howard Campbell— Maxi Priest—- Growing up in London, singer Maxi Priest looked up to his uncle Sydney Elliott, a vocalist who recorded in the 1960s. He did not know until his teens that one of Uncle Sydney’s sons was Jacob Miller, the charismatic roots singer and front-man for the Inner Circle band. Priest’s father Alfred was Sydney Elliott’s older brother. Jacob Miller used his mother’s surname. “I always loved up to my uncle. When we went to his home it was an experience. I even have one of his songs on my website,” said Priest. The Elliotts are from Ballard’s Valley in St Elizabeth. They migrated to the United Kingdom in the late 1950s; Alfred and his wife Hyacinth settled in Lewisham, south-east London, while Sydney lived in Kent. Maxi Priest, who is in his early … Read entire article »

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UNITED IN GRIEF: HEAVY D’S PARENTS SPEAKING OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME!

February 7th, 2012 | Add a Comment

The late rapper Heavy D’s parents, Eulalee and Clifford Myers. – Photo by Janet Silvera Janet Silvera WESTERN BUREAU:——- Clifford Myers was inside his doctor’s office when he heard screams coming from his wife outside. “When she said Dwight (Heavy D) just died, I thought I was going through the floor,” Myers told Flair in an exclusive interview last Friday at friends Percy and Murine Clarke’s home, in the quiet Coral Gardens community in Montego Bay. Dwight ‘Heavy D’ Myers died November … Read entire article »

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